Re: virus posting

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 10), Thomas E. Dickey said:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> 
> > What appears to be a virus posting just appeared with your name on it on
> > the ncurses mailing list.
> 
> I'm not sure how mine would be the source of the problem - I'm only
> mailing via FreeBSD or Linux hosts.

It's an annoying "feature" of the Klez virus.  It generates the From:
and To: headers using emails already in the infected person's Outlook
folders, to make recipients more likely to open the virus.

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/address@hidden

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        Dan Nelson
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